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So I get home start up my home pc as usual and go about my business, then all of a sudden I open my documents and the folders within it keep closing down. "Windows Encountered a Problem with explorer.exe and has to Shutdown!" I started getting annoyed cause it kept on doing it. So I decided to re-install XP to remedy the situation and that went ok BUT as I re-install my motherboard drivers all of them install except the Sound. It keeps saying DRIVER NOT FOUND! Reboot and run setup again. That doesn't work at all and I'm losing patience with this thing now. Anyone else encounter this problem? Really need some help on this one.
 
I find it interesting that your first solution is a reinstall. Would it not have been easier to try a restore point? Too late now but I am just wondering.
 
Why not just uninstall the device in Device Manager, Scan for Hardware Changes and updated the driver from there.

Ive been a technician for 9yrs, and like LancelotSA said, it really annoys me when people, as well as my technician working for me, always see format as the first, best way of fixing an error.

There is always another way. Even with a Blue Screen. There is always a way
 
Restore points are useless if you ask me and a waste of hdd space.

I have worked on many pc's and i find once xp starts giving kuk, the best is to reload it.

No point spending hours trying to a fix a problem when a 1 hour reload will sort it out.

Download the drivers from mobo manufacturer's website.
 
Restore mode never, ever worked for me. Reinstalling is not just that - you also have to take into account the time it takes to reinstall all other apps etc...
 
xp restore point is the first thing i disabled. in vista however i have found it to actually work very well.
 
Yup i disabled it even on Vista

Merc if you keep your important info on a sep hdd, reloading xp takes 30-45 minutes and your programs at most another hour.

If you have a very fast system you can do it all in an hour. Trying to figure out why your pc is not working could take days.
 
I got my drive partitioned so I don't mind a re-install.
Think I'll give it another go tonight, jst pray it works. I don't feel like spending more money.
 
killadoob said:
Yup i disabled it even on Vista

Merc if you keep your important info on a sep hdd, reloading xp takes 30-45 minutes and your programs at most another hour.

If you have a very fast system you can do it all in an hour. Trying to figure out why your pc is not working could take days.
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True. Although, I have a nasty habit of installing so many apps :o

Achmat_Samsodien said:
I got my drive partitioned so I don't mind a re-install.
Think I'll give it another go tonight, jst pray it works. I don't feel like spending more money.
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Just be careful - there was/is a bug with the XP setup - if you tell it to install only to a certain partition, it would ignore your request. This happened to me once but luckily I had my data backed up. It basically only wanted to install on the one partition - the one partition that I did not want it to install to and I tried reselecting and then selecting the other partitions but it didn't work.
 
I'm surprised at the comments re system restore.

If a client has an obvious system corruption, the question is asked " when was it working last ? "

A restore to that date in my experience solves the problem 9/10, and reduces a lengthy diagnostic process to less than 5 minutes.

And they think you are a genius as well.
 
Methinks it's a duff driver, crapware, or operator problems.
Facts aside, it's quite OK to blame XP if that soothes the pain.
I haven't reinstalled Windows in years - just restore a previous image made with Acronis True Image. Works 100% every time.
 
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